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International Judges Participate in Round Table Discussion in Indianapolis
October 9, 2004

On Saturday, October 9, as part of the Annual Conference of the National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ) being held in Indianapolis, an international panel of judges convened in a round-table discussion on the topic of judicial independence. Among the jurists expected to participate were (click names for biographies):

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Three additional expert participants were also anticipated to join, including Judge Carolyn E. Temin, who is working in Sarajevo for a year as a judge on the International Panel of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Paul G. Roland, Honorary Vice Consul of the Republic of Italy; and retired USAF Colonel Linda Strite Murnane, who was Chief Trial Judge in Europe and the Middle East. The moderator for the discussion was Judge Judy Chirlin from the Los Angeles County, California, Superior Court and International Director for the National Association of Women Judges.
 
Panelist Biographies
 

Hon. Judith C. Chirlin
Judge, Los Angeles County Superior Court, California
International Director, National Association of Women Judges

Judge Judith C. Chirlin, Former Chair of the Board of the American Judicature Society, is a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court. In 1998, she received the Alfred McCourtney Memorial Award as Trial Judge of the Year from the Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles.

Judge Chirlin has taught at the University of Southern California, is a frequent speaker and judicial educator throughout the nation on trial management issues with particular emphasis on jury management and jury trial innovations. Judge Chirlin is the former chair of the National Association of Women Judges’ Committee on Judicial Selection and of the California Women Lawyers’ Committee on Judicial Appointments, served as vice-chair of the California Judicial Council’s Advisory Committee on Gender Bias in the Courts and on a blue ribbon commission studying California’s women’s prisons and sentencing alternatives for women prisoners.She has served on the Boards of Legion Lex, the Constitutional Rights Foundation, the California Judges Association Ethics Committee, the West Los Angeles Business Litigation Inn of Court, Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, and Sojourn, a center for battered women and their children. She is also a member of the Cowboy Lawyers Association.

She is a graduate of the George Washington University (B.A.), the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University (M.A.) and the University of Southern California Law School (J.D.)
 

Hon. Ellen Gracie Northfleet
Vice-President Justice, Federal Supreme Court of Brazil

Hon. Ellen Gracie Northfleet
Hon. Ellen Gracie Northfleet

Ellen Gracie Northfleet was born in Rio de Janeiro. Vice-President Justice of the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil (STF), 2004-2006; Vice-President Justice of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE); A.B. Law School Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 1970; M.ABD. in Social Anthropology, from the same University (1982). First woman nominated as Justice of the Supreme Court an the Electoral Court of Brazil.

Past activities: free-lance translator, attorney in private practice, member of the BAR Association; member of the board of the BAR; Founding Director of the Escola Superior da Advocacia OAB/RS (Lawyer’s continuing education program), 1986-1987; member of the cultural association of the legal profession (Instituto dos Advogados); vice-president of the same association, 1988.

Federal Attorney (Ministério Público Federal), 1973-1989; entered the bench as judge of the Federal Court of Appeals (Tribunal Regional Federal da 4ª Região), 1989; member of the Regulations Comittee, and of the Continuing Education Comittee of the Court; member of the Administration Board, 1994), Deputy Chief-Judge, 1995-1997, and Chief-Judge, 1997-1999.

Professor of Constitutional Law (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos); recipient of a Fullbright Scholarship (Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program, 1991-1992), American University, Washington, D.C., specializing in “Administration of Justice”; member of the board of the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), Library of Congress. Jurist in Residence, Law Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (1992); member of the International Association of Women Judges.
 

Hon. Anne-Françoise Pascal
Justice, Supreme Court of France

Hon. Anne-Françoise Pascal
Hon. Anne-Françoise Pascal

Anne-F. Pascal, JD, was assistant to the District attorney of Aix-en-Provence and Grenoble from 1972 to 1981. She was then appointed to the bench of the trial Court of Grenoble and in 1987 was appointed a judge of the Court of appeal of Montpellier. In 1991, she was appointed to the Court of appeal of Paris before being elevated to the Supreme Court on January 3, 2003.
 

Hon. Flerida Ruth P. Romero
Supreme Court of the Philippines (ret.)

Hon. Flerida Ruth P. Romero
Hon. Flerida Ruth P. Romero

A.B.,Ll.B.,Ll.M.,Ll.D.(honoris causa, I.U.,May 6,2000)
(Justice, Supreme Court of the Philippines (ret.),1991-1999)

Present Positions: Judge, Administrative Tribunal, International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva; Judge, Administrative Tribunal, Asian Development Bank; Consutant, Supreme Court Committee on the Revision of the Rules of Court; Member, Board of Visitors, Indiana University School of Law; Engaged actively in arbitration of international and domestic commercial disputes.

Past Positions and Offices: Special Assistant to President of the Republic of the Philippines, Corazon C. Aquino, 1986-1991; Chairperson, Senate Electoral Tribunal; Vice-Chairperson, House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal; Chairperson, 1992 Bar Examinations; Presidential Legislative Liaison to the Senate; Regent, University of the Philippines Board of Regents,1987-1991; Secretary-General, Constitutional Commission of 1986; Director, University of the Philippines Law Center ,1979-1985 (Pioneer in Continuing Legal and Judicial Education); Professor of Law, University of the Philippines,1964-1985; President, Philippine Women Judges' Association (PWJA),1993-1999; International Director,International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ); International Honor Societies of Phi Kappa Phi and Pi Gamma Mu National President, YWCA of the Philippines,1975-1978; Active in civic, professional, social and fraternal organizations as President or officer Speaker, paper reader or resource person in international conferences abroad Honoree/Awardee of several organizations.
 

Hon. Jytte Scharling
Justice, Supreme Court of Denmark

Judge Jytte Scharling was born on July 23, 1947. She graduated from Law School at Copenhagen University in 1973 and served as deputy judge at City Courts from 1973 - 1986. In 1986, she was appointed judge at Copenhagen City Court. In 1997, she was appointed High Court judge at the High Court, Eastern Division, and in 1990 was appointed Supreme Court judge. In addition, Judge Scharling is an external examiner at the Copenhagen University Law School.
 

Hon. Inger-Else Stabel
Justice, Supreme Court of Norway

Hon. Inger-Else Stabel
Hon. Inger-Else Stabel

Justice Stabel was born in Oslo, Norway, in 1946. She graduated from college in 1971. From 1974 to 1988, she was the Gender Equality Ombud of Norway. She has also worked with the Ministry of Justice and Attorney General and has been a High Court Judge and the Chair of the Norwegian National Insurance Court. She became a Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway in 2001. The Court consists of 19 judges, 6 of whom are women. Justice Stabel has been a member of the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) since 2002.
 

Hon. Carolyn E. Temin
Judge, Court of Common Please of the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania

Judge Temin earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (B.F.A.) from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955 and a Law Degree (L.L.B. / J.D.) from the University of Pennsylvania in 1958.

In 1983, Carolyn Temin was elected to the Court of Common Pleas of the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania for a ten year term beginning January 1984. Judge Temin has subsequently been retained for additional ten year terms in 1993 and 2003. Judge Temin will become a Senior Judge at the end of 2004. During her tenure at the Court of Common pleas, Judge Temin has organized and initiated the "E Track Program", a specialized case management program for all major felony cases in the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court; served in the Homicide Division of the Court; served as Homicide Calendar Judge and Criminal Calendar Judge; served on the Civil Division of the Court presiding over complex civil litigation involving medical malpractice, products liability and commercial cases; served on the Criminal Division as the Pretrial Judge for Major Felonies; and served on numerous judicial committees.

Judge Temin is a member of the American Law Institute and the American Bar Association. She has been a member of the Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges since 1985 and served as its President in 1992-93. She has been an alternate delegate to the United Nations for the for the International Association of Women Judges and a delegate to the National Conference of State Judges for the American Bar Association. She is the current President of the National Association of Women Judges and has been a member since 1985.

Judge Temin has been a frequent lecturer, writer, and civic volunteer. Before being elected to the bench, she was an Assistant District Attorney for Philadelphia County, Chief Counsel and Acting Secretary for the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, and Assistant Defender for the Defender Association of Philadelphia, among other professional experiences. Judge Temin has won awards from the Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Blacks Networking for Progress, Inc., and the Dickinson School of Law.
 
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